Oven door



9 H. M. WHITE OVEN DOOR Filed July 1a, 1926 Zlnuentoz ro/a j/Z 12,

Patented a... 14, 1927.

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OVEN DOOR.

Application filed m 19, 1920. Serial in. 123,300.

This invention relates to-oven doors, and

has special reference to that class of ovens in which various kinds ofedibles are baked,

broiled, warmed or otherwise prepared.

Such ovens are ordinarily provided with side supports or shelves, gridsand the When roasting a fowl or other food it is often necessary toinspect the same and baste the fowl. This necessitates opening the ovendoor, withdrawing the roasting receptacle to a table or .other support,and return to the roasting receptacle and the oven after inspection oraking. Obviously this is a warm and laborious operation.

My invention aims to furnish an oven door with a shelf, rid or othersupport for food to be prepared in the oven.v In the instance cited, aroasting receptacle is supported from the inner side of the door an whenthe door is. swung open easy access canbe had to the roasting receptaclefor inspecting or basting purposes. v

My invention further aims to furnish an oven door with a plurality ofsupports or ledges for one or more detachable shelves, 'grids or thelike, all of which are movable with the door and may be cleaned andmaintained in a sanitar condition.

A still further o ject of this invention is to furnish an oven door witha shelf or grid support of such form that it will form a heat deflectorfor the open end of the oven, when the oven door is open, thuspreventing considerable heat from escaping into a s5 kitchen or otherroom. Such tends to maintain a normal temperature within the ovenwithout the oven rapidly cooling mdicent to the oven door being open.

There are two structuralforms of my inv 40 vention imd both behereinafter specifically described and that! claimed.

Reference will whFereint f 1 re 15 ars ive vlewo a conventi i x ial formof dveii i vith the door thereof 0 n I V iig. 2 is ahorizontal-sectional view of the oven with the door closed; Fig. 3 is ape 've view of a modified form of shelf or grid support, and Y Fig.-.4is a plan of a modified form-of oven door. t

In the drawing, thereferencenumeral 1 denotes an oven compartment formedb insulated walls and a hmlfied or otherwise ung door 2 having an insation panelll; The

rigidity now be had to the drawing,

than what is on the oven compartment 1 may be heated by gas,

oil, electricity or from a suitable source of. heat circulated abqut theoven, and while eac other and preferably made ofa single piece of rigidand durable material. Riveted or otherwise secured to the su port 4 area plurality of superposed angul and each ledge may be made of a singlepiece or strip of material bent to conform to the ledges 5 are adaptedto support one or more shelves 6, grids or the like, so that edibles,receptacles containin edibles, or other matter may be supporte from theinner side ofar ledges 5,

angular relation of the support walls. The i the door 2 and at a desiredelevation within the oven compartment 1. The shelves it may be 1n theform of sector shaped plates hav-. ng the angular disposed. edgesthereof restmg on'the ledges 5 and other edges curved or shaped toprovide clearance for the doorway of the oven and at the same timeafford a maximum supporting area for each shelf.

A grid may be in the form of a frame pro.- vided with interwoven wire,as shown in Fig. 2, or any suitable forammous structure may be ports IAs shown in Fig. 3' the support 4 may have 1ts ledges 5 formed by sha mga plate 7 to form two-ply ribs that wil answer the purplaced on'theledges. t0 fiQ P- poses of led es, and the lower edges of the plate 7may orm single ply ledges, In bothinstances the lowermost ledges may-beconnected by a bar or member 8 which will lend port i. i With the ovendoor 2 open, as shown in Fig. 1, easy access is had to the shelf 6 or aWith the. oven door closed there 'is still a small space in-the backpart of theoven compartment 1 so that. a pot or other to the, angularshape of the sup- I receptacle may be placed in the oven compartment forthe pre alrfation offfood other e or In'Fig. 4 there is illustrated a'modified form of oven door wherein the angle sup port is. composedof astationary section 9- attached to the door ordoor panel 3, and a movablesection 10 that may' be positioned at a right. angle to the-stationarysection9 grid.-

or ma be swung into parallelism .therewith, as in icated by dot and dashlines. A detachable or swingable brace 11 or the like may be employedfor holding the section 10 in an active position relative to the section9, and both sections are provided with ledges 5, similar to theone-piece rigid support 4. The sections 9 and 10 are hingedly connectedtogether, as at 12, and it is by virtue of the floating or swingablesection 10 that the oven compartment 1 may be used independent 'of thedoor equipment. It is thus possible for the user of the oven to place myimprovement in an inactive ositlon so as not to interfere with the orinary use of the oven, yet have the improvement convenient for suchpurposes as herein mentioned.

While in the drawing there are illustrated the preferred embodiments ofmy invention,

20 it is to be understood that the structural elements are susceptibleto such variations and modifications as fall within the scope of theappended claims.

What I claim is 1. The combination with an oven having a door, ledgessupported from the door, a support hingedly connected to the inner sideof the door and adapted to be swung in parallelism therewith, and ledgeson said sup ort adapted to cooperate with the door le ges in supportingshelves, grids or the like.

2. The combination called for in claim 1, and means adapted to retainsaid support at a right angle to said door.

3. An oven door having a fixed su port, a movable support hinged to saidfixed support, ledges carried by said supports, and a shelf adapted tobe supported by said ledges.

In testlmony whereof I aifix my signature.

1 HAROLD M. WHITE.

